Did you go to my link, about placement?

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...light=Lidoderm

There is a link to a 3D body image program on it, which allows you to see the nerves. The nerve plexus in the sacrum is a first
option to try. If it doesn't work quickly, move up the lumbar slowly to find the source.

MP is really a sensory thing, involving the front of the thigh only...the distribution of the lateral femoral nerve.

Where you describe pain, also involves tendons, fascia, and muscle. There is a condition called piriformis syndrome where the sciatic nerve can be damaged from injury. It runs thru the piriformis muscle in some people in such a way as to be able to be compressed with falling on the buttocks, or like you describe.

Figure 2A on this site shows it:
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000401/2109.html

I would try the magnets first to see where the intervention works best. Use the 3D program to visualize where the major nerves are. Since the magnets are reusable...they don't cost alot of $$ to find placement solutions. The Lidoderms are expensive to experiment with. With the Lidoderms, I'd do 1/2 patch on each side of the lower sacrum. Lidoderms take a few days to work.

The magnets are faster, but the effect goes away when you take them off. Over longer periods of time, they may retrain the nerves too. But the Lidoderms I think chemically work more efficiently for a possible reversal. I still have about 10% of my MP but I consider it so mild now, I often forget about it.

One thing to remember....HEAT will activate that nerve problem. So avoid heating pads, hot tubs and steam treatments. Heat excites nerves, and should be a very short, intervention, no more than 10-15 minutes for nerve pain.

You will know when you hit "the sweet spot".